Place:

Stalham
Norfolk

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales
described Stalham like this:

STALHAM, a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Tunstead district, Norfolk. The village stands 6½ miles SE of North Walsham r. station; and has a post-office‡ under Norwich, an inn, a police station, a corn-hall, a lecture-room, and a weekly market on Tuesday. The parish comprises 1,792 acres. ...

Real property, £4,626. Pop., 750. Houses, 169. There are two manors. S. Hall is the seat of J.Webb, Esq. Commerce is carried on through the river Ant. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £180.* Patron, the Rev. J. White. The church is mainly old, has a chancel of 1827, and was repaired in 1854. There are chapels for Baptists and Wesleyans, a national school, and charities £49.The sub-district contains 12 parishes. Acres, 15,794. Pop., 4,031. Houses, 939.